Citizen Screen

Classic films, television and Hollywood's Golden Age - passions and obsesessions. Enchanted by screens - the magic they portray and the gods and monsters they've featured. It's the stuff that dreams are made of. Ready for my close-up now...

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Roberto Rossellini (May 8, 1906 – June 3, 1977) 🎥

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Maureen O’Sullivan on the June 1940 issue of Movie and Radio Guide.

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Paulette Goddard by John Rawlings for Vogue in 1942. Killer shot!

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Ozzie Nelson (March 20, 1906 – June 3, 1975)

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On June 3, 1956, city authorities in Santa Cruz, California, imposed a total ban on public rock and roll dances.

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Jean Hersholt had many talents including sketching as this image shows. He is working on a sketch of Greta Garbo, with images of Lewis Stone, John Barrymore, and Wallace Beery in the background. All were co-stars of Hersholt in GRAND HOTEL (1932).

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James Cagney and Leo Gorcey on set of ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES (Michael Curtiz, 1938).

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Rex Harrison and Gene Tierney during production of THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR and with director Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1947).

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Remembering Sally Kellerman on her birthday #botd

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During an interview that aired on June 2, 1981, Barbara Walters famously asked Katharine Hepburn, "If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?"

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Jean Hersholt (July 12, 1886 – June 2, 1956)

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Peter Weir’s DEAD POETS SOCIETY hit a limited number of U.S. theaters today in 1989.

“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.” - Robin Williams as English teacher, John Keating

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Happy birthday wishes to champion of the movies, historian, filmmaker, author, Kevin Brownlow

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Fred Astaire performing the "Let's Say It With Firecrackers" tap routine from HOLIDAY INN in June 1942. The sequence was added to the movie as a patriotic number, following the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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Leo Gorcey (June 3, 1917 - June 2, 1969)

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Birthday remembrance - Johnny Weissmuller #botd

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Sir Rex Harrison (March 5, 1908 – June 2, 1990)